THIS THIS THIS
Host segment of the episode, easily.
They’re poking fun at the stupid hairstyle choices in the movie, spoofing the ridiculousness of zero-G making you move around really slow, using the music to great effect in order to highlight how it really doesn’t fit the action, just a banger all the way around.
10 out of 10.
Semi-related:
The hero smiling all smugly in this movie brings to mind a much later riff from High School Big Shot: “I hate it when his face lights up!”
This character had real potential which the bland, inconsistent writing and direction couldn’t really follow through on. He’s thankfully not Shatner chewing up scenery right and left. Nor is he Agar just being stunningly annoying and consistently cold towards everyone he meets. He’s sort of at a halfway point between those two. I don’t love him but I don’t hate him, either. The actor does his best to create an inner life for the guy, but he gets very little help as he tries.
That’s kinda like a microcosm of the film itself, ain’t it?
Like… [element X] was THIS close to being good, but came up short because [reasons Y].
Too be honest, the movie is too good for Mst3K, at least for the era it was released in. It reminds me of 401- Space Travelers. Still, I really think Warren Mitchell is one of Mst3k’s underrated actors. I liked him in The Crawling Eye and here also.
Can we please have this one redone in S14 so there can be a slow-mo space fight/dance between the two Synthias dressed up as the two main women?
Yeah, I dream too much. On many levels. 
Just now watching this. Naturally, I’ve seen it unriffed. My review from a few years ago:
Moon Zero Two (1969)
Science fiction film that manages to be both sedate and outrageously campy. Starts with a title sequence done as a comical animated cartoon, implying this is an out-and-out spoof, which it is not. The actual movie involves a space pilot hired by a tycoon to direct an asteroid made of sapphires to land on the Moon. Meanwhile, he helps a woman who shows up looking for her missing brother. Yes, the two plots do come together. The space stuff looks like a cheap version of 2001; realistic, for the most part, if obviously little tiny models. But the costumes and sets and wigs are straight out of Carnaby Street at the height of the Mod era, by way of Italian sci-fi movies. Then there’s the choreographed modern dance numbers performed at Moon City’s bar, which are a hoot. The tycoon acts like a low budget Bond villain, and wears a purple monocle. (There’s a lot of purple in this thing. Purple wigs, purple miniskirts, etc.) Because somebody tried to sell this as a “space Western,” the bad guys use plain old pistols instead of, say, ray guns. And there’s a wildly inappropriate brassy big band/jazz soundtrack. Concentrate on the eye candy and forget about the deadly slow story.
Later thoughts:
You’d think the first man on Mars would have a better job than salvaging satellites. Doing commercials, at least.
Why is the Western movie on the flying Moon transport thing on the wall that the passengers are not facing (except love-interest-to-be, so she can talk to designated-hero)?
It occurs to me that the bad guys usually have all the bright colors (particularly purple) while the good guys mostly have white, gray, and pale colors. Since this is sort of, kind of, vaguely James Bond-ish, that goes with the fact that the villains in those film always have the niftiest headquarter set designs.
According to the extra included on the DVD of the MST3K episode, some of the production crew did go over to the 2001 set and take notes on how they did the EVA scenes.
Purple was the color of the future. I remember the old show UFO (set in the far future of 1980!) and the girls had purple hair.
So my purple hair just means I’m ahead of the fashion curve? Excellent.
(actually I haven’t had time to dye it in a while)
I’m surprised Prince never did.
I saw the recent post about the original, unriffed movie Danger: Diabolik (1968) getting an upcoming 4K release. That reminded me that this movie (original and unriffed) still has not even seen an HD release. Seems to be just DVD (SD) quality, even on the places selling digital copies. These may even be only monaural as well.
